Monitoring lingering oil from the Exxon Valdez spill on Gulf of Alaska armored beaches and mussel beds sixteen years post-spill
By: Gail V. Irvine, Daniel H. Mann, Jeffrey W. Short.
Contributors: Mann, Daniel Hamilton.; Short, Jeffrey W.; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Publisher: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Oil pollution of soils -- Alaska -- Alaska, Gulf of.; Environmental monitoring -- Alaska -- Alaska, Gulf of.; Mussels -- Effect of oil spills on -- Alaska -- Alaska, Gulf of.
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Description: "Objectives for this project were to: 1) Monitor surface and subsurface oil at 6 previously established sites (armored beaches) along the Gulf of Alaska coast; 2) Assess boulder movement at the sites in order to investigate the relationship of substrate stability to oil persistence; 3) Determine the chemical weathering of the oil"--P. 4-5.
Notes: "January 2007."

Authors affiliated with U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, University of Alaska Institute of Arctic Biology, and National Marine Fisheries Service Auke Bay Fisheries Laboratory.

"Restoration Project 040708."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-36).

Final report.

Armored beaches studied in the following areas: McArthur Pass, Cape Douglas, Kiukpalik Island, Ninagiak Island, Cape Gull, and Kashvik Bay.

Also available on the Internet.

Funded by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

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